title: Chapter 6. The new story: on the possibility of liberating oneself from the drug self.
abstract: This chapter explores the meaning(s) of "treatment effect" within the psychodynamic tradition. The conventional wisdom is that a successful treatment presupposes a transformation of unconscious "material" to a conscious level. The "treatment effect" is reinterpreted as being better understood as changing an old (and detrimental) story into a new tale-an alternative narrative about the self. New possibilities following this conceptual change are introduced with the aid of some concrete examples.
authors.affiliation: Ersta Sköndal University College , Stockholm , Sweden.
authors.forename: Bengt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Börjeson
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D062525:Narrative Therapy / Q000379:methods